Spatial Concept Perspectives

We have gathered ~300 excerpts from published works about fundamental spatial concept terms. These have been cross-referenced with the concept lexicon appearing on the left. Those terms were drawn from the U.S.National Science Education Standards (NSES 1996) for topic areas B - Physical Science, C - Life Science, D - Earth and Space Science, as well as from the 1994 U.S. Geography Teaching Standards for grades 9-12. Those standards can be browsed here.

spatial concept terms

disciplinary perspectives on "movement"

movement

[OED]: 1. A change of physical location. a. The action or process of moving; change of position or posture; passage from place to place, or from one situation to another.

Linguistics

OED Online (2nd Ed.)

Oxford English Dictionary, Online Edition

sequence

[in moving any object] the action could be characterized temporally by how long it took us to move [it] (the duration), and the specific time [it] was moved (sequence). The boxes could also be moved at regular intervals. Over long durations of time this pattern could be characterized as a frequency, as with other periodic events and processes, such as Halley's comet. (p 174)

Geography

Kaufman (2004)

Using Spatial-Temporal Primitives to Improve Geographic Skills for Preservice Teachers